Protect & Care helps MTA NSW Group members identify opportunities to improve employee safety, strengthen wellbeing processes and create safer automotive workplaces.
Identify opportunities to improve employee safety and wellbeing
Managing a businesses’ employee safety and wellbeing requirements to ensure the best outcomes for employees and business can be a daunting prospect.
The Protect and Care Program was developed for large employers to take advantage of MTC’s industry knowledge and best practice processes to help deliver favourable outcomes for all.
Our Proven Approach
Protect & Care takes a practical, risk-based approach to helping automotive businesses identify workplace health and safety risks, understand compliance gaps and implement clear actions that improve safety, wellbeing and operational performance.
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How Protect & Care can support your business
Practical workplace health and safety support tailored to automotive businesses, workshops, dealerships, collision repairers and service operations.
Technical workplace risk assessments
- Noise risk assessments
- Hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods assessments
- Manual handling and ergonomic risk reviews
- Plant and equipment safety reviews
- Workshop ventilation and airborne contaminant assessments
- Electric vehicle and hybrid vehicle risk assessments
- Battery storage and workshop fire risk assessments
Workplace health and safety reviews
- WHS policy and procedure reviews
- Safe Work Method Statement reviews
- Workshop inspections and safety observations
- Manager, supervisor and worker interviews
- Safety capability and compliance assessment
- Practical WHS report and staged improvement roadmap
Psychosocial workplace risk assessments
- Workforce surveys and consultation
- Claims, incident and workplace data review
- Psychosocial hazard identification
- Practical workplace risk control recommendations
- Support for workload, stress, communication and change
Why automotive businesses choose Protect & Care
Protect & Care helps automotive businesses improve workplace safety, reduce operational risk and build stronger systems for managing health, safety and psychosocial hazards.
Improves WHS compliance
Supports your business with practical workplace health and safety reviews, assessments and compliance-focused recommendations.
Reduces workplace risk
Helps identify and manage workplace risks before they lead to incidents, claims or business disruption.
Strengthens workshop safety
Supports safer, more consistent practices across workshops, dealerships and automotive service environments.
Builds leadership accountability
Helps managers and supervisors better understand workplace risks, safety responsibilities and practical improvement actions.
Is committed to workplace safety
Demonstrates a commitment to safety in the workplace and to reducing workplace injuries and promotes more sustainable workers insurance costs
Improves visibility of risks
Gives your business clearer insight into workplace hazards, safety gaps and priority actions.
Supports safer operations
Helps create safer, more compliant and better-performing automotive workplaces.
Why Protect & Care works
Protect & Care combines MTC’s understanding of the automotive industry with SWR’s specialist workplace health and safety expertise.
The result is practical, commercially focused workplace safety support that helps automotive businesses improve compliance, reduce workplace risk and create safer, better-performing operations.